भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

many of his tribe accepted Hinduism. Gradually, that whole tribe of thousands of people merged itself into the Hindu society. That king changed his original name in the Shan dialect to Jaydhwaj Singh, a name among the Hindu Kshatriyas. All the later Ahom kings too took for themselves Hindu names alone. Ban on crossing attock and sea voyage 522. While the brave tribes, like the above mentioned Ahom, were courting Hinduism even in its evil days, there was no likelihood of any ban on purification or any caste-differences, to stop them from doing so. For, these only made some new addition to the already existing numerous castes in the Hindu nation. Some of their customs and manners were limited to their particular castes, but all other rites and ceremonies were common to all, in strict conformity with the injunctions of the Hindu Smritis. The ban on purification and reconversion was being enforced more-and-more strictly only towards the north up to Punjab, solely because of the ruthless atrocities of the Muslims. The rest of the Indian continent was wholly free from the danger of Muslim domination. The Muslims had not yet made any further headway. Naturally, the ban on purification and reconversion had not so far presented itself to them in any urgency. It should be told here, that the ban on the crossing of the Attock, i.e. the injunction appearing in the later smritis, declaring it a sin to cross the Indus and to go over into the Muslim lands, must have been promulgated by our traditionalist priesthood, with the sole intention of saving Hinduism. For, it was impossible that crossing the Indus meant abandoning Hinduism (the Vedic cult) and being polluted, as it is now amply proved that even after the ravages of Mahmud of Ghazni, the whole of the region beyond the Indus even up to the Mount Pariyatra (Hindukush mountains), was reconquered by the Hindus and the Hindu rule spread up to Khotan. Even up to that time, ‘Krunvanto Vishwam Aryam’ was the motto inscribed on our national flag. ‘Traverse the whole world for spreading Aryadharma’ was the supreme unqualified religious order of the day! 523-524. But it becomes clear from the historical facts mentioned above, that it is only when the Hindu states beyond the Indus were liquidated, thousands of Hindus began to be violently converted to Islam by the devilish Muslims, who subjected the followers of other religions to harrowing persecution. The ban on crossing the Attock must, therefore, have been enforced, owing to the helplessness caused by the lack of any